[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion

[Douglas Roberts]

Mine has not yet arrived.  I *Know* I ordered mine before Stephen did.

--Doug

-- 
Doug Roberts, RTI International
droberts at rti.org
doug at parrot-farm.net
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

On 9/26/07, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
>
> Merci!
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>
> > The Amazon truck came today. Congratulations, Pamela!!
> >
> > -S
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
> >> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:55 AM
> >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion
> >>
> >> One of our complexity scientists in this novel claims she
> >> plays the piano passably.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sep 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>      What?!  No saxophone-playing complexity scientists?
> >> FRIAM has at *least* two of those...
> >>
> >>      Hmph.  See if *I* read your novel.
> >>
> >>      ;-}
> >>
> >>      Seriously, congrats, Pamela!
> >>
> >>      --Doug
> >>
> >>      --
> >>      Doug Roberts, RTI International
> >>      droberts at rti.org
> >>      doug at parrot-farm.net
> >>      505-455-7333 - Office
> >>      505-670-8195 - Cell
> >>
> >>      On 9/13/07, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>              released.  The authors' copies arrived last
> >> night.  Set mostly in Santa
> >>              Fe, though parts of it are set in Frankfurt and
> >> Munich, Germany and two
> >>              of the major characters come from New York City.
> >>
> >>              Here's the copy blurb:
> >>
> >>              An internationally renowned scientist who fears
> >> she's taken one
> >>              scientific risk too many; a distinguished
> >> archaeologist who's haunted
> >>              by taking too few; a world famous financier
> >> who's lost everything
> >>              except his money; an art gallery owner with a
> >> heartbreaking burden; a
> >>              fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered
> >> women's shelter--these are
> >>              some of the people who find themselves at the
> >> end of the Old Santa Fe
> >>              Trail at the end of the 20th century.  Chance
> >> has brought them from all
> >>              over to beautiful legendary Santa Fe, New
> >> Mexico, where they shape,
> >>              illuminate, and even deform each other's lives
> >> unexpectedly, as if on
> >>              the very edge of chaos.
> >>
> >>              This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that
> >> slender territory
> >>              between frozen predictabililty and hopeless
> >> disorder, is a dangerously
> >>              unstable place.  Learning and change can only
> >> happen there, but always
> >>              under threat of sliding back to frozen
> >> order--or over into the chaotic
> >>              abyss.  And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even
> >> now, keep a precarious
> >>              foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their
> >> own pasts and their
> >>              city's rich history into an uncertain but
> >> exhilarating future.
> >>
> >>              Available on Amazon:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Chaos-Pamela-McCorduck/dp/0865345783/
> >>              ref=sr_1_2/102-5640244-6038511?ie=UTF
> >>
> >>              Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but
> >> getting a book out is about
> >>              like having a baby, except it takes longer.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>              "A little patience, and we shall see the reign
> >> of witches pass over,
> >>              their spells dissolve, and the people,
> >> recovering their true sight,
> >>              restore their government to its true
> >> principles.  It is true that in
> >>              the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit,
> >> and incurring the
> >>              horrors of war and long oppressions of enormous
> >> public debt...If the
> >>              game runs sometimes against us at home we must
> >> have patience till luck
> >>              turns, and then we shall have the opportunity
> >> of winning back the
> >>              principles we have lost, for this is a game
> >> where principles are at
> >>              stake."
> >>
> >>
> >> Thomas Jefferson
> >>
> >>
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> "A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody.  A hope
> fulfilled is already half a disappointment."
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>                                 Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish Policemen's
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